Adobe Indesign CS6 - Foundation

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WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Adobe InDesign is a software application
produced by Adobe Systems. It can be used to create works such as posters,
flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books. InDesign can also publish
content suitable for tablet devices in conjunction with Adobe Digital
Publishing Suite.

This course contains 8 lessons, which will
cover the basics of learning InDesign and provides countless tips and
techniques to help you become more productive with the program.

You'll learn how to create printing designs
for such as posters, flyers, brochures, magazines and more!

AUDIENCE

The primary audience for this course is Desktop
Publishing Artists, Graphic Artists, IT Executive, Designers, Webmaster and Programmers.

This course will go through the foundation
to the advance features of Adobe InDesign CS6. Thus, it is suitable for anyone
who is new to InDesign environment or those who have not had formal training.

PREREQUISITES

Participants should be comfortable using a
mouse, opening and saving files and the general operations of computers

Familiarity to any graphics program would
be an advantage

METHODOLOGY

This program will be
conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentation, discussion and
practical exercise.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this program,
participants should be able to :

Understand the basic technical skills
required to work with types, text, layers, shapes, brushes and to create
effects in Adobe InDesign CS6

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Modules

Introducing The Workspace

Looking at the workspace

Working with panels

Customizing workspace

Navigating through a document

Using context menus

Getting To Know InDesign

Viewing documents

Preflighting as you work

Viewing guides

Adding text

Working with styles

Working with graphics

Working with objects

Working with Object Styles

Setting Up A Document And Working With Pages

Creating and saving custom document settings

Creating a new document

Switching between open InDesign documents

Working with Master pages

Applying master pages to document pages

Adding sections to change page numbering

Adding new pages

Arranging and deleting pages

Placing text and graphics on document pages

Overriding master page items

Working With Objects

Working with layers

Creating and editing text frames

Creating and editing graphics frames

Adding metadata captions

Text wrapping around graphics

Modifying shape of frames

Transforming and aligning objects

Flowing Text

Flowing text into existing text frame

Flowing text manually

Creating text frames while flowing text

Flowing text automatically

Adding jump line page number

Editing Text

Finding and changing missing font

Entering and importing text

Finding and changing text and formatting

Checking and spelling

Editing text by dragging and dropping

Using Story Editor

Tracking changes

Working With Typography

Adjusting vertical spacing

Changing fonts and type styles

Fine-tuning columns

Changing paragraph alignment

Creating a drop cap

Adjusting letter and word spacing

Setting tabs

Adding rule

Working With Color

Defining printing requirements

Creating and applying colors

Working with gradients

Creating a tint

Creating a spot color

Applying colors to text and objects

Using advances gradient techniques

Mohd Saiful Nizam

He has
conducted and facilitated various types of courses for entrepreneurs and
college students using programs developed by himself and his team based on knowledge
sharing, teaching, learning and applying this knowledge to help cultivate a
learning environment for all the participants that attend his training sessions.

He has also
taught participants of various ages and has a lot of experience in handling different
types of participants.

Alex Ong Min Jie

Alex has been working with multimedia applications since Adobe Flash was still Macromedia Flash and has taken up a Bachelor of Computer Science in Multimedia at University Putra Malaysia after the spark of interest. He explores different multimedia applications and several programming languages, such as Java and C#. He is a very fast learner, enabling him to improve himself in the departments he is most interested in. During his final year in UPM, he was a participant of Imagine Cup, and a finalist in the Malaysia levels, which heightened his experience. He has worked at a local Spend Management System Specialist, which enabled him to sharpen his programming skills in .Net. This also helps to improve his understanding of the market's requirements and needs. Read More

Mohd Yunus Bin Omar

Mohd Yunus has been working in the IT industry since 1995 and has been exposed to all the common challenges faced by IT personnel. With years of experience working with multimedia, IT services and end users, he understands the importance of business value, infrastructure efficiency and user productivity.He shares his passion in multimedia related software especially Adobe and Autodesk products and specializes in visual effects, animation, graphic and web designing, architectural, mechanical and electrical. Read More